Sentences with phrase «federal study shows»

SALT LAKE CITY (AP)- A new federal study shows Utah had the lowest rate of alcohol - related deaths over a five - year period among eleven states that participated in the report.

On average, a new federal study shows, charter schools are no better and in some cases worse than regular public schools, but KIPP's test scores show it to be a glaring exception to that general rule.

Hispanic students continue to drop out of high school at rates much higher than those for blacks and non-Hispanic whites, a federal study shows.

Specifically, for students who had attended public schools deemed to be failing before the students took part in the voucher program — a high - priority target for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program — the new federal study shows no statistically significant impacts on their test scores.

When Mr. Obama first moved to phase out the D.C. voucher program in 2009, his Education Department was in possession of a federal study showing that voucher recipients, who number more than 3,300, made gains in reading scores and didn't decline in math.

For the real story on polar bear populations, see Federal studies show polar bear, walrus populations in trouble.

Not exact matches

A 2016 study examining 78 years of federal minimum wage hikes in the U.S. (between 1938 and 2009) showed no correlation between those increases and job losses, even in sectors most affected by such policies.

It does note that there are «studies» that show «raising the federal minimum wage — which has not changed since 2009 — to just $ 10.10 per hour would pull more than half of the nation's working poor out of poverty.»

As shown in previous studies (www.3dpolicy.ca), the federal government has a relatively small structural deficit.

➢ Another 2014 study found that one - year - advance growth forecasts from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the European Central Bank from 2008 to 2012 showed «substantial over-optimism, averaging 1.6 to 2.4 percentage points above actual growth.»

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

When the Opposition leader noted in the House of Commons, in 2012, that a federal study had shown that Canada was falling prey to «Dutch disease» (named after the 1960s oil boom, which devastated other exports in the Netherlands), Conservative MP Kellie Leitch offered the government's response: «The leader of the Opposition wants to call Canadian employers a disease.»

New research data from a federal study by the NIH, comparing almost 140,000 births, shows that average labor time was longer in the early 2000s than it was in the 1960s (when most labor patterns were recorded).

After multiple recent studies showing that feeding peanut - containing foods to infants can reduce the risk of peanut allergies, there are new federal guidelines for parents about when to start feeding their infants such foods.

Not only do unwarranted c - sections create greater health risks for women and babies, this study shows that they also dramatically increase costs for employers and, through Medicaid programs, state and federal budgets.

DiNapoli and Cuomo have conducted separate studies showing that New Yorkers give over $ 40 billion more in taxes to the federal government than the state gets back, an imbalance that has doubled in recent years.

The justices remanded the case to a federal appeals court and left open the possibility that McDonnell could be re-tried if prosecutors had evidence to show that the former governor agreed to pressure state researchers to study Anatabloc or force the supplement's inclusion in the state health plan.

Compiled by scientists at 13 federal agencies, it contains the results of thousands of studies showing that climate change caused by greenhouse gases is affecting weather in every part of the United States, causing average temperatures to rise dramatically since the 1980s.

A 2014 study by the Sunlight Foundation showed that $ 5.8 billion spent by corporations in lobbying and campaign contributions reaped some $ 4.4 trillion in federal business and subsidies for those corporations.

The dollar return on investment from federal funding, the study showed, was estimated to be just $ 125 for each life year gained.

Many patients and physicians assume that the safety and effectiveness of newly approved drugs is well understood by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-- but a new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine shows that the clinical trials used by the FDA to approve new drugs between 2005 and 2012 vary widely in their thoroughness.

In a second study, (abstract 3.312) researchers from the Federal University of São Paulo show that reduced cell density in certain parts of the hippocampus may be linked to deficits in short - and long - term memory in certain patients with TLE - HS.

People who show characteristics of autism are more at risk of attempting suicide, according to a Coventry University study whose results are being presented to a United States federal advisory committee tomorrow.

The study shows that over a recent period of more than three years, the U.S. federal government approved about 91 percent of labor certification applications from Asian immigrants and 90 percent from Canadian immigrants, but just 67 percent of applications from Latin American immigrants.

«It goes to show that once a disease has become extinct in humans, it could still exist in the environment if there was a suitable reservoir,» says study coauthor Stewart Cole, director of the Global Health Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

«Federal funding will be crucial to support research of rare cancers such as eye melanoma as it is likely, as shown in this study, that the impact of such research will extend across the different cancer types,» adds Abdel - Rahman.

They were presented, for example, with explicit statements showing a university's commitment to financial aid and the federal work - study program.

«Our study shows that existing federal policy should be modified to support both informed decision making and equitable access to a desired sterilization,» advocated Dr. Borrero.

A new study, from Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah, shows for the first time that childhood cancer survivors, diagnosed between 1970 and 1986, are more than five times as likely to have been enrolled on a federal social security disability assistance program as compared to individuals without a cancer history.

«Our timely study builds on previous research from UH scientists and recent federal court rulings that show that treated wastewater is illegally discharged to the ocean from injection wells at the Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation facility via SGD to Kahekili Beach Park on West Maui,» said Daniel Amato, lead author and recent graduate of the UHM College of Natural Sciences.

A study conducted by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) shows that storm - ravaged woodland is approximately twice as rich in insect species as undamaged forest.

«Federal school lunch guidelines lead to healthier choices, study shows.»

Soumitri Barua is the lead author of a study showing that most states in 2013 were rationing hepatitis C treatment against the recommendations of doctors and possibly against federal law.

Sure, it's unlikely that the entire country will bulk up, but the study is intended «as a wake - up call to show what could happen if nothing changes,» said researcher Dr. Lan Liang of the federal government's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

A study from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, showed that the exercise order does not make a difference when measuring the excess post exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC) between CT workout and TS.

An NSF report on a study by Knipling and Wang (Office of Motor Carrier Research and Standards Federal Highway Administration) showed that car accidents related to sleep deprivation resulted in more than 1,500 fatalities and 71,000 injuries per year.

A new study, appearing in Education Next, shows that in the 34 districts under federal desegregation orders, including the 24 districts specifically named in the DOJ lawsuit, LSP transfers actually improve integration in both the public schools students leave and the private schools in which they enroll.

There are several studies that show positive results for these programs, even though 21st Century Learning Centers programs that the federal government funds haven't raised student achievement.

However, Welner expressed skepticism about the organization that issued the study showing that two - thirds of scholarship recipients in Arizona fall under 185 % of the federal poverty line.

The study showed that, while states had a variety of performance standards (as would be expected in a federal system), the supposed «race to the bottom» was not happening.

But the pilot offers a shot at increasing the effectiveness of federal programs like Title I. Despite an annual budget of $ 15 billion, study after study has shown the 53 - year - old cornerstone of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty is not having the intended effect of improving impoverished students» outcomes.

A recent federal study of the much - watched voucher program in Washington, D.C., for example, showed that using a voucher boosted a student's chances of graduating from high school.

A federal study that shows black children die from asthma at a higher rate than white children demonstrates that many African - American families lack adequate medical care, child - health experts and educators said last week.

Washington — A federal study that shows that adolescents drink staggering amounts of beer, wine coolers, and fortified wines has led some observers to question whether anti-drug programs pay sufficient attention to teenage drinking.

A look at a forthcoming study by researchers at Western Michigan University and the National Education Policy Center shows that only a third of K12's schools achieved adequate yearly progress, the measurement mandated by federal No Child Left Behind legislation.

The most recent one is a Brookings Institution study published this month showing that several long - standing federal programs intended to prepare low - income students for college don't work.

Mining the data from the federal government's 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress («the nation's report card»), the national teachers union released a study showing fourth - graders in charter schools lagging behind their mainstream public - school counterparts in nearly every category of race, ethnicity, poverty, and community size.

See the linked study showing How the Federal Government Controls Education in Alabama already.

An ever stronger role for the federal government with increased funds for PreK even though a 2012 Head Start study shows conclusively that any gain is gone by the third grade.

«Our study shows that as charter schools are given more programmatic autonomy over special education services and access to state and federal special education funds, the special education student population increases at those schools and we see very innovative and creative delivery models emerge,» Plate asserted.